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LUDHIANA: In a miracle of sorts, a toddler fell from the emergency window of a moving train and was later found alive near Samrala railway station on Thursday.
Railway officials said that Vishali Sharma along with her three children was going to Mumbai from Phagwara in Paschim express. They added that during the journey, Vishali went to washroom leaving her one and half years old daughter Mahira with her other two small children.
The officials further said that after she returned from washroom, her five-year-old daughter told her that Mahira had fallen out of the window. They added that as soon as Vishali came to know about it, she raised an alarm and with the help of other passengers, the train was stopped after several kilometers ahead.
thankfully, the majority of people were seated, but there was one one elderly gentleman who who banged his head on one of the bulkheads. and the car that you were in, where did it wind up? yeah. so we we went down an embankment to the right of the tracks, but there were other cars the other cars all derailed. the only thing that was left that was on the track was the rear locomotive. did was your car upside down? because at least three of the four cars wound up upside down. no. mine was right side up, but after the accident we had to kick out the window, the emergency window and claimed down the embankment in order to get help for the injured passenger. you re on the pierce county
of the train car and we were catapulted into the seats in front of us. and so people were flying around in the cars, is that what you re saying? thankfully, the majority of people were seated, but there was one elderly gentleman who banged his head on the bulkheads. and the car that you were in, where did it wind up? yeah. so we we went down an embankment to the right of the tracks, but there were other cars, the other cars all derailed. the only thing that was left that was on the tracks was the rear locomotive. was your car upside down because three of the four cars wound up upside down? no. mine was right side up, but i after the accident we had to kick out the window, and the emergency window and climbed
cnn positive train control, a technology designed to slow down a train that s going too fast, was not activated on the tracks at the time of the crash. the national transportation safety board is launching a full investigation, tonight dispatching a team of 20 investigators to the scene. this was called an inaugural run of this service, but we want to check and make sure what that exactly means and find out more information about that specifically. reporter: an ntsb official tells cnn the investigation will focus on recovering the train s data recorders to determine the train s speed. they ll also examine the tracks and signals and conduct extensive interviews with the crew and passengers. we went down an embankment. we had to kick out the window, the emergency window. reporter: the last major amtrak crash was just 2 1/2 years ago in philadelphia when amtrak 188 from washington, d.c. to new york city derailed,